The closure of Blue Sky Studios was a result of Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox and the financial challenges of maintaining three separate animation studios. The studio's closure left 450 employees without work.
U.S. Blue Sky Studios was a subsidiary of 20th Century Animation until its acquisition by Disney, as part of their acquisition of 21st Century Fox assets in 2019. Blue Sky was shut down in April 2021 by Disney due to the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business operations.
Blue Sky Studios, known for popular films like Ice Age and Rio, was once a major player in the animation industry but closed in April 2021 due to a corporate acquisition and cost-cutting efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In January 2022, fans of the tropical tale received the exciting news that Rio 3 is officially in the works (via The DisInsider). As with most animated movies, the development and production process is extensive, often spanning several years.
It's officially confirmed that Zootopia 2 is happening, and after nearly a decade since the original, the anticipation is high. Zootopia is set in a world where humans don't exist and quirky anthropomorphic animals take on everyday roles, such as a ram working as a chemist and a sloth employed at the DMV.
On April 10, 2021, the studio officially closed. The studio did not survive and now remains a memory. Yet its legacy lives on through its films, and here is a look back at what happened to Blue Sky Studios.
Over the past week, Bluesky users have been protesting on the platform after a number of accounts using racial slurs in their usernames were discovered. The most prominent example of this was a user whose Bluesky handle was the n-word.
Who owns Bluesky? Though Jack Dorsey funded Bluesky and sits on the company's board, he is not involved in day-to-day development. The CEO of Bluesky is Jay Graber, who previously worked as a software engineer for the cryptocurrency Zcash, then founded an event-planning site called Happening.
The reason that “Ice Age” and “Rio” are on Disney+ is because Disney acquired the animation studio that made those franchises, Blue Sky, as part of a much larger deal where they bought most of the former 21st Century Fox.
As of 2023, Bluesky operates its own official network, Bluesky Social, a centralized service running on open-source software for its servers and client apps, with their initial protocol implementation released under the MIT license. Neither the protocol nor service claimed to use blockchain technology in 2022.
In 2019, Disney announced that it would be purchasing 20th Century Fox and all companies within- including Blue Sky Studios. However, in 2021, Blue Sky Studios was shut down permanently due to the COVID pandemic. After seeing how important Scrat was to fans, Disney made a decision.
Disney shut down Blue Sky Studios. The new film didn't have the original voice cast and feels more like a spin-off than a sequel. Apparently, Disney lost the film rights to Scrat.
East New York is an American police procedural television series that aired from October 2, 2022, until May 14, 2023, on CBS. The series starred Amanda Warren, Jimmy Smits, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Kevin Rankin, Richard Kind, and Elizabeth Rodriguez. In May 2023, the series was canceled after one season.
The Blue Sky M incident is a maritime incident which took place on 30–31 December 2014 in the Ionian Sea, when a cargo vessel carrying many migrants from Syria and neighbouring states was abandoned by its crew.
The film is based on Rama Stagner-Blum's real life and the relationship between her parents, Clyde and Gloria Lee Moore-Stagner, during the 1960s while her father was in the army. They later divorced and Gloria remarried before dying in 1982.
Today, Bluesky's user base sits at 2.6 million: a 5,100% increase—noteworthy, given that the service is invite-only, as of now—but still far short of Musk-era X (225 million monthly users), and Threads, Meta's hastily launched proxy (to date, 141 million users).
acquired 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets in a deal valued at $71.3 billion. At the time, Walt Disney Animation Studios president Andrew Millstein joined Blue Sky as co-president alongside co-president Robert Baird; both will be leaving the company with the shutting of the studio.
Blue Sky's final film was Spies in Disguise, which was released on December 25, 2019. The studio's final production overall was the miniseries Ice Age: Scrat Tales, released on April 13, 2022.
DreamWorks Animation LLC (DWA) (also known as DreamWorks Animation Studios or simply DreamWorks) is an American animation studio owned by Universal Pictures, a division of NBCUniversal, which is itself a subsidiary of Comcast.
In his euphoria, Blu finally unlocks his ability to fly, and he carries her to Linda and Túlio. Now a couple, Linda and Túlio adopt Fernando and live in their jungle sanctuary.
